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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Heskey22 on October 31, 2005, 11:32:50 AM
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Greetings,
I have recently purchased a Geforce 6600GT graphics card which, after many investigations, I have realised requires a 300 Watt PSU to function correctly. Currently, my system has a 250 Watt PSU.
Symptoms - some games will run OK, others crash regularly but any attempt to run any videos, mpegs etc results in Windows packing up and a hard reboot to get things going again.
I have been told today that there isnt a single power supply I can purchase that will physically fit into my chassis. Am I stuck with my old graphics card for all eternity?
I have tried saving watts by disconnecting the floppy drive which I barely use and removing an additional 512MB DDR RAM that i installed a while ago. The problems persist.
If anyone can help me on this, id greatly appreciate it. The sooner the better. Another day or two and I may have eaten my PC, the graphics card as well as all of the Dell support centre staff.
Regards
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Unfortunately, Dell uses proprietary motherboards, power supplies, and cases. If you wanna upgrade one out side of Dell's productline, you need to upgrade the other two.
Sooo, you'll have to either buy a new motherboard and case, or buy a power supply through dell, or find one on, say, eBay.
For now, you will need to keep that 6600GT out..so you don't damage it and/or the rest of the system.
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Dell are bunch of power-hogging bums, coz they dictate what u can dow ith ur system. Don't buy one again.
I would say look on ebay, put the word out on sites like this but wateva u do, don't email Dell, all they try and do is ask for the"e-value code of the system, oh blah blah blah, i need it oh balh blah blah blah!" and when u can't give em that, they try and sell u a new piece of crap, oops, i mean "computer"
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I would go to ebay.com or geeks.com and buy a brand new computer for about 400$. Dell computers suck ass they manufactor most of there own parts means its very very hard to upgrade the system with outside parts. So the best thing for you to do and to save money is first go to ebay.com go to the computer area put max dollar amount and find something for a decent price thats not a dell.